On 9/7/17, Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > Urs Thuermann <u...@isnogud.escape.de> writes: > >> I see that some new versions of packages are installed without the old >> versions being removed, although they are marked as automatically >> installed, e.g. Linux kernel, clang, llvm, and some others. For >> example >> >> # aptitude search "~i clang" >> i clang - C, C++ and Objective-C compiler (LLVM >> based) >> i A clang-3.5 - C, C++ and Objective-C compiler (LLVM >> based) >> i A libclang-common-3.5-dev - clang library - Common development >> package >> i A libclang1-3.5 - C interface to the clang library > > That shows the ‘clang’ package is *not* marked auto-installed. That is, > the APT database shows it was manually requested, and so will never be > auto-removed.
Oh, oh, ohhhh.. Quite a while back I observed on here that apt-get tells me packages are now marked as manually installed if I (accidentally) do an "apt-get install" command on a package that turns out to already be current. That happened to me regularly when I was having to break my upgrades into small sized chunks while doing them every day (k/t small town dialup access). I'd *almost* be willing to bet that your "the APT database shows it was manually requested, and so will never be auto-removed" comes into play with respect to that apt-get advisement. It would be interesting to test it if that actually does... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
